1932 D.L. Sayers Have his Carcase 322: Jenny Moggeridge’s Baby Charles what was a accident what Mrs Moggeridge was looking after.at accident, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 56: ‘Fair tied to that young woman’s apronstrings,’ he reflected.at tied to someone’s apron-strings (adj.) under apron-strings, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 423: They’ll have been destroyed, as sure as eggs is eggs.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 195: ‘Ain’t she the snail’s ankles?’ asked Mr. da Soto, admiringly.at bee’s knees, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 242: Take off that vulgar and idiotic hat and tell me who this low-down, bone-headed, bird-witted, dissipated murderer is.at bird-witted (adj.) under bird, n.1
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 242: Take off that vulgar and idiotic hat and tell me who this low-down, bone-headed, bird-witted, dissipated murderer is.at boneheaded, adj.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 435: That number-plate was pure bunce for them—they can scarcely have picked or wangled it on purpose.at bunce, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 89: If I shave the beard I come out all over buttons.at button, n.1
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 325: He’d have plenty of time to [...] buzz along on foot to the rock and commit his murder.at buzz, v.1
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 127: Lord, Inspector! How you startled me! All right, it’s a fair cop.at fair cop, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 117: You know the sort, all la-di-dah and snake-skin shoes.at la-di-da(h), adj.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 242: My dear, what’s happened? You’re all of a doodah!at all of a doodah under doodah, n.1
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 448: If we do prosecute, d’you really think we’ve a hope in Hades?at not a hope in hell under hell, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 267: I’ll begin seriously to weave a hempen neck-tie for him.at hempen cravat (n.) under hempen, adj.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 385: We tried the mag, and she was working top-hole.at top-hole, adj.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 154: I like a bit more open air and none of this jazz and dinner-jackets.at jazz, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 128: Three hundred golden sovereigns — that’s what he turned it into. Three hundred round, golden jimmy o’ goblins.at Jimmy O’Goblin, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 152: Makes a chap look a bit of a fool when his mother proposes to give him a twenty-year old lounge lizard for a step-papa.at lounge lizard (n.) under lounge, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 406: At the moment when everything is ready to poop off, the rest of the gang arrive.at poop off, v.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 415: Why don’t you give them to that old woman that’s so struck on you?at struck on, adj.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 117: There’s that Leila Garland—a hard-boiled little piece if ever there was one.at piece, n.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 152: Thought I’d better push along.at push along (v.) under push, v.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 415: Anything that’s worth keeping, I’ll keep, but not rubbishing bits of paper.at rubbish, adj.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 412: ‘When Lord Peter gets these fits of quotation he’s usually on to something.’ ‘Sez you,’ retorted Wimsey.at says you! (excl.) under say, v.
1932 D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 435: What more natural than that Weldon, if questioned, should remember a number so screamingly funny as that? Oi, oi, oi! Highly humorous.at screamingly, adv.